Re-adoption/Christmas

We went to court here in Luck on December 18. Aixing was automatically a U.S. citizen when we landed in Los Angeles on July 9, 2008, but we wanted her to have an American birth certificate. Her name is officially Coral Rose AiXing Schmidt.

Aixing enjoyed using the laptop while we were in the airport. She enjoys her sesame street game.

We spent Christmas in Tennessee and had a nice time visiting with everyone. Aixing loved playing with her friends and her cousins. Santa was able to find Xing at her LaoLao's house. She enjoyed playing airplane with LaoLao's cane. We also got to have lunch with a bunch of people Bill worked with in Tennessee.

Sorry about the quality of my pictures. We had to use our old camera because the battery charger to our new one got thrown away by accident.

Christmas Party

We attended our red thread Christmas party on Saturday night.  It was a lot of fun.  Santa Claus came and visited with the kids.  There were a lot of games and fun for the kids.  The organizers worked really hard setting it up and there were of people there.  It was nice to get to get to meet more people.  Xing seemed more relaxed too.  In the past we've noticed, she sometimes would seem uncomfortable around a large group. 

We also went to the Luck Library and did crafts and visited with Santa there.

When Santa came to the Christmas party, I asked Xing if she wanted her picture taken with him and she told me "no, I already did at the library".

Party

We had a party to celebrate Xing's 3rd birthday.  This was her first party with just friends.  I think it went well and the kids had a lot of fun.  They did some gymnastics and had a bouncy house.  Xing goes t gymnastics at Flyaways Gold so we had the party there.  Not sure if Flyaways will ever be the same.

XingXing's 3rd birthday!

Thursday was Xing Xing's 3rd birthday!  She has been anxiously waiting for it to arrive!  She's been wanting a gas pump.  She's always asking at the post office if it's come yet.  It finally came and she was very happy to get it.  She also loves the Disney CARS  movie so she got a Lightning Car.  Lots of friends and family sent her birthday wishes and she was able to buy a ball and hungry hungry hippos game.

She got to help make her cupcakes and she had a great time eating the batter and the icing.

As she will do every year, she donated to Smile Train and to her SWI in China.

Thanks for all the wishes and love. One fun thing she got to do was have a party with Grandma Nai Nai and Uncle Rob b/c they all have November birthdays.

Love without boundaries

Check out what Love without Boundaries is doing for children in China:

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Tennessee Trip

Coral had a great trip to Tennessee.  She got to see most of her aunts and uncles, some of her cousins and lots of friends.  She loved driving around the mall in the red car.  Notice her thoughts on Favre in a Vikings jersey...thumbs down.  She got to go to the zoo and to her great-aunts far.  She loved getting into the powder that Grandma keeps under the sink...she just forgot to take her clothes off first!  She really had a great time.  We got to go see some really good friends from Decatur.  It was great to catch up with them.  Unfortunately, we've all been sick since we came home.  Hopefully, we'll be better soon.